Astrology Venus

IF YOU HAVE WORKED THROUGH THE STEPS YOUR DATASHEET WILL HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION ON IT. THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT WE WILL BE WORKING WITH HERE FOR BUSINESS TEAM BUILDING.

1.What is the sign on the cusp of your 6th house? What key words have you written beside this?

2.What is the planetary ruler of this house? What is the energy of this planet?

3.Where is this planet in your chart? What house is therefore linked to your values around work? That is, what other area of your life affects your work choices?

4.What is the sign on the cusp of your 9th house? What key words have you written beside this?

5.What is the planetary ruler of this house? What is the energy of this planet?

6.Where is this planet in your chart? What house is therefore linked to your values around work? That is, what other area of your life affects your vocational work choices?

7.What is the sign on the cusp of your 10th house? What key words have you written beside this?

8.What is the planetary ruler of this house? What is the energy of this planet?

9.Where is the planet in your chart? What house is therefore linked to your values around work? That is, what other area of your life affects your public achievement work choices?

10.Are there any planets in these houses?

11.What are their energies?

12.What are the key aspects affecting these houses?

13.What are the themes of your chart and how are they affecting any of the above houses?

The 6th house represents your employment. If you are a team member working for an organization then this is the house which you will want to evaluate. If you are leading a team, managing, or the owner of the organisation then the 10th house of reputation and honour will most probably be the house from where you are establishing your behaviour within this team of people working for you.

If you are working here for reasons other than work itself then consider the following vocational information.

Vocations involving 1st house values capitalise on your personality.

Vocations involving 2nd house values focus on banking/finances.

Vocations involving 3rd house values focus on transport, mail order and writing (memos, journalism, etc rather than book publishing which comes under 9th house issues).

Vocations involving 4th house values focus on real estate, fundamental security at a level which is more important than the common income needs for everyone.

Vocations involving 5th house values focus on stocks, bonds, speculation, entertainment, art, creative pursuits - the need to play and be creative as prioritised.

Vocations involving 6th house values focus on employment itself, but if this house is busy there will be issues of service to others as a priority rather than the need for status.

Vocations involving 7th house values focus on partnership enterprises.

Vocations involving 8th house values focus on gifts, partner’s money, inheritance, investing in others.

Vocations involving 9th house values focus on teaching, publishing, lecturing - a real calling which is pronounced and important.

Vocations involving 10th house values focus on public business achievements.

Vocations involving 11th house values focus on friendships, professional hostessing, a business which is itself very social or needs to be expressed for the good of the masses rather than for personal acclaim primarily.

Vocations involving 12th house values focus on underlying energies which are satisfied through work in detention centers, hospitals, through detective work etc.

Notice the different planetary energies in these houses for you. Note your ruling house. Is this the 6th house? This is then significant in this exercise because work is very important to you - perhaps because of this your colleagues frustrate you more than they do each other because the team is not so tied up with their fundamental value system as it is for you. You can come to terms with the interplay of energies by taking some time now to read yourself astrologically by attributing the keywords you have already written in your data sheet.

Now you should be beginning to understand some of the tension in your own decision making process and your reactions to those you work with. Some of your own values and goals are surfacing, if they weren’t already obvious to you.

Your process at this point will no be conclusive. Knowing thyself is an on-going process. Just trust a little and move on. All the awareness you gather on the way is beneficial to you.

2. Understanding your colleagues’ values pertaining to the workplace, their specific job and their ambitions.

If you are lucky enough to have all the astrological data for your team then carry out the exercise above for each of them.

This is not always possible. So in this section we are going to turn to non-astrological data first, and assess this using our Venusian astrological model.

The objective here is to expand our awareness of those we work with so that we can interact rather than react.

Let’s start with a non-astrological, question-based exercise.

Exercise

Write down a description of your present team. No need to name names. Just give numbers etc. Male 1, Male 2, Female 1, Female 2, Female 3; or if you find this gender offensive apply your own sense of separation between individuals, for the purpose of this exercise, e.g.. Individual 1, Individual 2,…etc.

Next consider how each approaches the team itself. For example, if your team is ideologically dominant then how does each member respond to the dominant ideology and those methods this fosters? Who are the inner elite and who are on the edges? There are no points for getting this right. This is your subjective awareness of others only.

Next consider the actual positions and remits of these individuals. Make notes that you know of such as: Do they stick to their remit? Are they always offering suggestions that don’t seem to be a part of what they are being paid for? Do they complete the tasks required of them? How are these tasks given to them? What are their reactions to these tasks? Are they, to your knowledge, focused, investigative, angry, logical, quiet, vocal? Think of as many adjectives as you can which might apply.

Next write how each individual in your team communicates to others. Are they ardent memo makers? Do they speak up at meetings? Do they control meetings? Do they change agendas without approval? Do they draw a lot of diagrams? Do they use the telephone more than email? Are they always walking around talking to people and having meetings with clients rather than using the telephone or email? Are their reports wordy or concise? If you can, have a look at the language they use and work out if they are largely visual, auditory or kinaesthetic.

Take the time to write a sheet on every one of your team members. If you like you can encourage every member to do this exercise for themselves. It’s probably not a good idea to do this together or even show anyone what you have written. This will inhibit honest evaluation. Your feelings are important in this exercise but often your feelings have no reality in how the other person’s) actually behave.

Next consider the following questions:

How do you learn? Do you need to be taken through something practically? Do you need to hear how things need to be? Do you need to see what is expected of you?

Are you in Research and Development, regardless of your position or at what level?

Are you Operational? Do you get the job done even though the systems are not structured so that those outside would be able to map what it is you do.

Are you in customer service or public relations? Do you feel your results or do you monitor them structurally?

Now that you are starting to think in general methodological terms about your team and your place in it take this a step further.

Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Find out what it is that they do and how they do it. Perhaps you are a big picture person, always understanding the concept and frustrated that the rest of your team can’t see that without a direction who knows what blind ally you might end up down? (Which way was ‘up’?)

It is very important that you really consider the above questions because these will allow you to appreciate the other members in your team. Often it is only through many years of experience that you can understand how a team which comprises several different players actually works best. Be prepared to kick yourself for underestimating at least some of your team members who can and do do what you can’t and won’t do!

Some people retain a lot in their heads. Perhaps you are one of these. Some people need to have everything written down, or else it doesn’t even get into their heads! Before you laugh best consider that often it is these people who are able to do the most with the information once it does get it.

So far we haven’t even mentioned Astrology. This is because in this section you probably won’t have much more than a birth date. Sometimes people lie about their ages so maybe you won’t even be able to rely on this. Therefore, we are coming at this from outside Astrology first. When you are satisfied that you have completed the above exercise proceed with the astrological evaluations below, for as much as you can with the information you have. As you do, add your findings to the notes you have compiled on everyone.

Astrology in teams.

O.K. You’ve done the exercises above?

O.K. You’ve completed, as much as you can, the birth date details, signs, planets, etc for members of your team? Hopefully, you considered the members of your team in the opening part of this book as you gathered information. If you need to check list your data turn to the check list on page … now and enter what you left out from this. Then come back to this page.

Now, here is some astrological food for thought. The information you have gathered should be fresh in your mind. If it isn’t then re-read it before reading the following information. You are going to begin to recognize the astrological archetypal personas in your team mates. Remember, just because a person is a Scorpio doesn’t mean that he or she can’t act like a Libran in the office! He/she may have Libra in their sixth house, or maybe they are working at the job to satisfy some Libran need which appears in another house of their chart.

The most important thing you will begin to understand from what follows in this small section is that work is always about much more than work - for your team mates and for yourself. Let’s find out some behaviours of the archetypes now from a work point of view.